Of Governor DeSantis thinks that some parents are abusing A
privilege.
That's why he's calling on lawmakers to limit the number
of objections for school library books and instructional materials.
FOX 13. Kelly Cowan is covering this for us this
morning.
Good morning, Kelly. Good morning to you.
And it's not just parents that he's concerned about here.
He says there are bad actors that are making way
too many frivolous objections to these books.
Some of them don't even live in the school district
or have kids that go to the school where they're
objecting to the book.
So he wants the legislature to crack down on this.
In fact, there is a House bill that's making its
way through that part of the legislature right now,
the bill currently. Would add a $100 processing fee to
any unsuccessful.
Book objection in certain situations.
So the fee would apply to people who do not
have a student enrolled in the school where the material
is located and then also have had five materials unsuccessfully
objected to in a current calendar year Now during the
news conference.
During a news conference yesterday in Orlando,
Governor DeSantis said that inappropriate challenges are overburdening school districts.
You have seen activists that will go and just challenge
almost anything that's not appropriate to be happening.
Hijacking this process is not something that that we want
to encourage in any way,
and it's been from different motivations.
You know, you have some people that just think these.
Some people honestly think a lot of these books are
bad,
even though they're classics. There's others that are doing it
just to try to create a narrative.
Now, according to a House staff analysis of the bill.
1218 book objections just last year,
resulting in the removal of 386 books.
The vast majority came from Clay and Escambia counties.
The bill, which also has several other education issues tied
into it,
has already received approval from three panels and its position
to now go before the full House.
There's also similar bills in the Senate,
but those bills don't have the same types of disincentives.
The fee, for instance, in those bills,
which is likely why the governor yesterday was promoting the
House version.
Kelly Cowan live for us this morning.
Thank you, Kelly.